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B'nai B'rith International is pleased to commend a statement issued by a recently established group, the Protestant Consultation on Israel and the Middle East.
The group, comprised of figures associated with diverse churches in Europe, North America and Africa, released a statement on Dec. 4 to express its support for pluralism in the Middle East, and its solidarity with Israel and all those who face persecution and violence in the region.
Too often, Israel has been unfairly demonized and delegitimized. B'nai B'rith is grateful to all those who recognize Israel for what it is—the only proven democracy in the Middle East.
We look forward to working with friends in the Christian community to encourage genuine fairness and constructiveness in considering both the challenges facing the Middle East and meaningful interfaith relations.
In the statement, the Protestant Consultation on Israel and the Middle East writes: "We see the modern State of Israel as a hopeful sign... Israel's citizens are free to criticize failings of their government and there are mechanisms to correct those failings... [Israelis'] propensity for self-criticism is a legacy of the prophetic tradition that Jews and Christians share...
"We believe it is possible to pursue justice and peace in ways that attend to the rights and needs of all peoples of the region."
The statement continues: "We are distressed to see how certain European and North American church officials approach the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as if it were a zero-sum game. They fall in line with the international campaign that purports to help the Palestinians by delegitimizing Israel... They target Israel alone for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS). This approach is unjust, and it is unhelpful to the cause of peace.
"We are committed to stand with Israel and the Jewish people, as we also stand with persecuted Christians and other minorities in the region."
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The Tseshaht First Nation is a vibrant community on the West Coast of Vancouver Island in Port Alberni, British Columbia, with an active and progressive natural resources-based economy. We are proud of our culture and work as a community to preserve our traditional values and the teachings.
Tseshaht translates as "the people of Ts'ishaa," a place on what is known today as Benson Island, one of the Broken Group Islands in Barkley Sound. We are one of the 14 Nations that make up the Nuu-chah-nulth [Nootka] people of western Vancouver Island.

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PHOENIX (AP) — An Iraqi man charged with detonating a homemade explosive device outside a Social Security Administration building in Arizona has been indicted on 14 state counts of attempted murder.
Authorities say Abdullatif Ali Aldosary researched bomb-making materials and gathered chemicals before detonating the explosive outside the office in Casa Grande on Nov 30. No one was injured in the blast about 50 miles south of Phoenix.
Aldosary, 48, initially faced five federal counts, including weapons and explosives charges, to which he pleaded not guilty.
A judge has dismissed two of those charges related to the bombing at the request of federal prosecutors who indicated the state charges would cover the same conduct.
Aldosary still faces three federal weapons counts alleging he is a felon who was in possession of firearms and ammunition.
Recently unsealed documents show a grand jury in Pinal County indicted Aldosary on July 10 on 18 counts, including attempted murder, arson and use of explosives.
His federal public defender did not return messages from The Associated Press on Friday. It wasn't clear if Aldosary had a new attorney for the state charges.
"We appreciate the confidence and trust the FBI placed with the Pinal County Attorney's Office to prosecute this case and we certainly will," County Attorney Lando Voyles said in a statement.
Prosecutors declined further comment on the case.
The attempted murder charges, according to the indictment, appear to pertain to witnesses and Social Security employees who were in the area at the time of the explosion.
Authorities have declined to provide details about the case, including any motive or whether Aldosary is suspected of working alone or with others. A news conference was planned for Monday.
Aldosary came to the United States legally in 1997 from his home country of Iraq.
In 2008, he pleaded guilty to felony aggravated harassment charges. He was sentenced to two months in jail and three years of probation. But his probation was revoked a year later, and he was ordered to serve a year in prison.
Aldosary had sought help from U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar's office in 2011 in obtaining permanent residency. Gosar has said he contacted Homeland Security, which responded in a letter that Aldosary's case had been put on hold "pursuant to the terrorism-related grounds of inadmissibility" under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Authorities say he was denied a green card in 2008 because he fought with anti-government forces trying to overthrow former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein in Basra, Iraq, in 1991.
Gosar's office questioned why the man hadn't been deported.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Aldosary's previous arrests on harassment charges and a probation violation weren't considered deportable offenses.
Aldosary again requested a green card, but federal immigration officials flagged it for a potential review of his status in the U.S. after his arrest in the bombing case.
Authorities say a search of Aldosary's home turned up documents hidden behind a picture that explained how to build a bomb. Aldosary also sought information on how to create explosive material known as RDX, "considered one of the most powerful of the military high explosives," according to the initial criminal complaint. "RDX is believed to have been used in many bomb plots, including terrorist plots."
Authorities also seized a handgun and rifle at Aldosary's home, along with hundreds of rounds of ammunition and several gallons of chemicals that could be used to make a bomb, according to court documents.


text: Student Profiles Sarah Podmaniczky '08 Sarah Podmaniczky '08 Hometown: Millbrook, New York Major: Double major in English and Government Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin? I was attracted to Bowdoin because of the people. From the moment I stepped onto campus for my overnight visit, I was surrounded by friendly individuals who were genuinely concerned about each other, their studies, and even me, a complete stranger interested in their school. Why did you choose your major? I chose English because I love to read and analyze literature. I also love the way that my professors are even more enthusiastic than I am about the books they teach! I chose government because I enjoy reading legal opinions, and I find international relations interesting and extremely relevant in today's globalized world. What has been a course you especially enjoyed at Bowdoin? Professor Shelley Deane, a native of the Republic of Ireland, led a lively Politics of Ireland class, replete with stories of her personal experiences in conflict negotiations. She used media perspectives, such as films and advertisements, to demonstrate various views on the history and nature of the Anglo-Irish relationship. What professor or professors have especially inspired you during your time at Bowdoin? Most of the ones I've worked with have inspired me! Professors Peter Coviello, Allen Springer, Gerald DiGiusto, Shelley Deane, and Aviva Briefel were particularly great, though. Each of these professors is clearly devoted to the subject he or she teaches, and they love to share that devotion and interest with their students. Every one of these professors leads stimulating class discussions that were challenging but thoroughly enjoyable. I find myself leaving their classes excited to return to the discussion later in the week. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? I am captain of the Bowdoin women's cross-country and squash teams, in addition to running outdoor track in the spring. I am also the vice president of Bowdoin's Polar Bear Swing Dance Club and I help lead the Bowdoin Debate Team. As for work, I devote my Sunday nights to the Tedford Singles Shelter, and I work at the circulation desk at Hatch Science Library on campus. What have you done during your summers? I stayed home in New York my first summer and worked at Marist College in the office of institutional research, writing an economic impact report for the college. My second summer I studied Justice and Law at American University's Washington Semester Summer Program and interned at the U.S. Sentencing Commission in Washington, D.C. This past summer I was a junior fellow at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology while I, again, lived in D.C. During this time I interned at the Census Bureau, visited various statistical agencies in the city, and attended a weekly seminar on Survey Methodology. I also spent two weeks interning for a federal judge in southern Ohio. What is your best Bowdoin memory? There are so many.... One outstanding would definitely be our freshman mocktail party in the spring on the second floor of Hubbard Hall, when the Longfellows [one of Bowdoin's many campus a cappella groups] sang for us. The acoustics were beautiful, the food was great, and it was wonderful to see my friends in a semi-formal setting. What are your plans for after graduation? I am planning to attend law school after Bowdoin. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? You can do as much as you want here—so try everything! What quirky or fun thing did you wish you knew before you came to Bowdoin? That lobsters are, in fact, delicious. I missed out on the lobster bake until this year! Story posted on September 11, 2007 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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Start your engines and bring your ride to Our Lady of Peace Nursing Care Residence for a different kind of fundraiser. Our Lady of Peace "Cruisers Day," in conjunction with Cataract Cruises of WNY, presents "Super Cruise" on Saturday, July 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the facility, 5285 Lewiston Road.
Bring your car, truck, tuner or motorcycle. The first 70 cars receive dash plaques. All vehicles must be on site by noon to be eligible for judging.
The event features plenty of entertainment with Dee Jay the DJ, along with refreshments. Other activities include a 50/50 raffle, door prizes and Chinese auction. All proceeds will benefit the residents of Our Lady of Peace.
Pre-registration is $8, while day-of registration is $10. For more information or to register, contact Katey Dulak at 716-298-2911.


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CSCW '86 Conference Summary Report
This article is the conference chairman's report on the results of CSCW '86. The report introduces the field of computer supported cooperative work, describes the CSCW '86 program and discusses the significance of the conference results. An introduction to the follow-on conference, CSCW '88, is also provided.
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What is input bias current (IB) of an operational amplifier?
This is the current that flows in or out of the input pins. The input pins are the base pins of the transistor (or gate pins in the case of FET inputs). In order for the input transistor to operate, the base current (IB) must flow. This base current is the input bias current. In actual use, when a resistor with a high resistance (RIN) is inserted at the input, the input bias current is used to express the input signal error.
For example, if RIN=1MΩ and IB=100nA, there is an error of 0.1 V. Therefore, when the impedance of the signal source is large, it is necessary to select a product with a small input bias current. Note also that the difference between the bias current of the + and - input is the input offset current. Whether the bias current flows in or out differs depending on the input stage transistor.
Note Because the input bias current of a Pch JFET is equivalent to the gate leakage current, it has the feature that it is very small - in the order of pA units. However, if the temperature rises 10°C, the bias current doubles.


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MONTPELIER, Vt. – Community Capital of Vermont was recently selected to be a U.S. Small Business Administration microloan intermediary and has received a commitment for a $300,000 SBA loan to invest in small businesses in Vermont.
Community Capital of Vermont is only the second microloan intermediary to serve the entire state of Vermont, which provides direct loans up to $50,000 to small businesses.
"Community Capital of Vermont helps small businesses prosper through flexible business financing," said Martin Hahn, Community Capital of Vermont's executive director. "As a microloan intermediary, Community Capital will be able to expand the scope of its business lending and will result in new partnerships with entrepreneurs seeking to start or grow their business."
Microloan intermediaries are nonprofit community-based organizations with experience in lending and technical assistance. They administer the microloan program to make loans to business owners who lack the collateral or credit history to qualify for a traditional bank loan. As a microloan intermediary, Community Capital serves as a stepping stone for entrepreneurs, helping them build sales, experience and credit to become successful and bankable businesses.
"This new partnership with Community Capital of Vermont will help increase access to loans for startups and underserved communities with reasonable rates and terms," said Darcy Carter, SBA Vermont District Office Director.
Microloans can be used for working capital, inventory, furnishings, equipment and more. The maximum repayment term allowed for an SBA microloan is six years. In 2010, SBA microloan intermediaries provided nearly $45 million to more than 3,800 businesses throughout the nation.
Vermont Community Loan Fund in Montpelier is also a statewide microloan intermediary. Northern Community Investment Corporation in St. Johnsbury is a microloan intermediary serving Essex, Orleans and Caledonia counties.
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Genetically modified organisms have come to the Four Corners area. GMO alfalfa seed and other crops have been planted in Montezuma County as well as the rest of the country. Not to worry though, advocates of GMO technology often compare GMO gene-changing processes with hybridization and cross-breeding, which have been going on for centuries. Unfortunately this could not be further from scientific fact.
Genetic modification involves taking bacterial, animal or other foreign genes and shooting them into the genetic material of a plant or animal. GMOs have only been around since the mid 1990s when they entered the food chain untested and unlabeled. GMO manufacturers such as Dow, Bayer and Monsanto have received patents on GMO seeds, while at the same time claiming substantial equivalence, a term meaning GMO seeds are just like their non-GMO counterparts.
The Food and Drug Administration has accepted this assertion of substantial equivalence, so GMO seeds are considered generally recognized as safe and are on the same list as products such as food coloring. They enter the marketplace without any human or animal safety testing. Companies such as Monsanto are legally allowed to introduce new GMO crops for sale without even notifying the FDA. It may be a little disconcerting to remember that Michael Taylor, President Obamas food safety czar, was a former lobbyist for and vice president of public policy at Monsanto who supported introducing untested bovine growth hormone into U.S. milk supplies a practice banned in dozens of countries.
But back to the science: 80 percent of all GMO crops are herbicide tolerant, meaning they survive massive applications of herbicides that would otherwise kill them. GMO alfalfa is an herbicide-resistant crop. These crops can be grown with significantly increased applications of glyphosate-containing herbicides (like Roundup).
The amount of herbicides used in the United States has increased substantially: 383 million additional pounds have been sprayed on these herbicide-tolerant crops just in the last 13 years alone. A huge portion of this 46 percent was applied in 2007-08 as a result of the herbicide resistance in weeds that grow in GMO crop fields.
The safety of Roundup has been controversial it has been shown to bioaccumulate in the soil, bind managanese (an important trace mineral) and make it unavailable for crops. Roundup is also a teratogen (causes birth defects) in amphibians and poultry. Unfortunately for all of us, herbicide resistance in the United States is also resulting in a sizable increase in the use of the toxic herbicide 2,4-D.
It is acknowledged that this overuse of herbicides and planting of Bt-corn (a GMO crop that produces its own pesticide) is in part responsible for the rise of superweeds and invasive superbugs across the Midwest. In some fields, the superweeds have gotten so bad that weeds have to be cut by hand with machetes and are so thick, that along with the unusually strong and sharp cornstalks, farmers are having to buy Kevlar tires for their tractors.
What about the animals and humans that eat GMO food?
The biotech industry asserts that genetically modified material from soy or corn does not makes its way into the bloodstream or have any effect on human gut bacteria.
Monsantos own feeding studies, however, showed that the genetic material in GMO corn that makes it pest-resistant was transferred to the beneficial bacteria in the intestinal tract of humans eating GMO corn. This potential for creating a pesticide factory in the human gut has gone untested.
Recent research has shown that GMO corn insecticidal proteins are found in the blood of pregnant women and their fetuses. Animal research has shown intestinal, liver, kidney and reproductive toxicity from both GM corn and soy. This does not bode well for the assertion of substantial equivalence.
The local planting of GMO alfalfa, corn and soy will add increasing amounts of Roundup in our soil, water and the crops themselves. The wind can also carry pollens from GMO crops many miles. Gene cross-pollination contamination occurs from birds and bees. Many thousands of acres of organic and non-GMO crops may be contaminated. One of the real worst-case scenarios is that non-GMO alfalfa gets contaminated by GMO alfalfa. Alfalfa is a food staple for livestock this could be a real threat to the entire organic meat and dairy industry.
Proposition 37, an initiative that would require labeling of GMOs the same way theyre already labeled in more than 60 countries, was recently put before voters in California, where Monsanto and friends ran a $50 million ad and spending campaign against he measure. There has been no victory yet for the big pro-GMO junk food and pesticide groups that created this blitz: 3.3 million ballots have yet to be counted and results will not be certified until Dec. 14. Well keep our fingers crossed.
More than 90 percent of Americans are in favor of GMO labeling; we want and deserve to know whats in our food. A 30-state coalition has already formed to get initiatives for GMO labeling going in every state.
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Welcome to the University of Regina Career Centre Homepage! Whether you are trying to choose a career direction, or looking for full-time, summer, part-time, or co-op employment, or an employer looking to hire a student to fulfill your business needs, this website is for you! At the Career Centre, we strive to give you the most current, valid, and comprehensive information for your prospective job-searching needs.
Here is just a brief summary of what program might be of benefit to you:
The Aboriginal Career Centre tailors its programs towards Aboriginal, Metis, and Inuit students studying at the University of Regina, and to employers looking to hire or mentor a student through one of the programs featuring the Full Circle Summer Internship
Career Exploration & Counselling offers services and resources for making informed decisions about your educational, career and life direction with a focus on three activities: self-assessment, exploration and re-evaluation.
Co-operative Education & Internships is the site designed for future and current co-op students looking for work terms, and where employers go to post positions or learn more about becoming a hiring partner
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I-15 construction scheduled for Spanish Fork to Payson
03/03/2013 10:15amBeginning in spring, the Utah Department of Transportation is scheduled to widen six miles of I-15 between the Spanish Fork River and the south Payson interchange.
No tattoos, piercings for Utah teens without parent present, bill says
03/03/2013 11:45amUtah may soon impose tougher restrictions on tattoos and piercings for minors.
'You are homegrown heroes,' says senator honoring firefighters
03/03/2013 12:20pmUtah lawmakers honored local firefighters Wednesday for their hard work and bravery during a "unprecedented" season of wildfires.
Woman dies after being struck by car in SLC
03/03/2013 1:56pmA woman struck by a car while crossing a street Saturday night has died from the injuries.
Carbon county, others want second look at Narrows dam project
03/03/2013 3:03pmThe Carbon County Water Conservancy District and a pair of environmental groups want the federal government to revisit its approval of a new dam and reservoir in neighboring Sanpete County.
Federal pushback bills pending in Utah Legislature
03/03/2013 4:08pmAs the legislative session approaches its final stretch, bills are winding through the Utah Capitol that take a deeper dive into the public lands dispute and carve out new declarations where state lawmakers say federal authorities have overreached.
Barn fire causes roughly $15K in damages for Hooper owners
03/03/2013 4:52pmA barn fire Saturday morning caused $15,000 to $20,000 in damages, officials said.
Mother of woman killed by police still asking for answers
03/03/2013 6:02pmFour months ago, police shot and killed Melissa Kennedy's daughter, an act she called a murder. After all that time, she still has no information about what led up to it. Frustration is mounting, and Kennedy said she won't let the investigation get swept under the rug.
Woman in critical condition after rolling on I-15
03/03/2013 7:27pmA 25-year-old woman was critically injured after her car rolled outside of St. George on Sunday afternoon.
Lehi police seeking man who crashed allegedly stolen car into backyard
03/03/2013 10:14pmPolice are looking for a man they say stole a car and led police on a chase, ending only when he crashed through a fence and into the backyard of a Lehi family.
Newspapers are changing, but Pew study highlights Deseret News success
03/03/2013 10:15pmA Pew Research study released last month examined four newspapers which had experienced significant revenue losses during the past decade, including the Deseret News. Researcher Mark Jurkowitz said each of the papers, in different ways, essentially threw out the traditional business model, and reinvented it.
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I started This Topic, and i would be the (("LAST")) person to bash a guy forcabron wrote:this is a bit off topic from Dynabar, but anyways;
Tomatkins etc. would this carabiner work just by itself, ...
making his own stuff !!! I made my own board to learn on and Still use it in
light wind. I started the mods my 08--13M Ozone Edge even though i got
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Post subject : Make your own sliding spreader bar (like a dynabar)
Seriously -- i can't really see burning the time and money to build a device like theBille wrote:My Dynabar V-7, has a FULL 12 inches of travel, (305mm).
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I have been taking a much needed break from work and blogging. As I type, I have a special brunch being prepared in my oven. Later on, I'm making a very simple Easter Dinner for two of the special men in my life-- my husband and my son. I'm making a glazed spiral ham-- would you believe it's my first one? I'm also making a family favorite of sweet potato casseroles and some roasted asparagus. I'm super excited to make a new dessert-- which I reveal when I return to blogging.
I also want to let all of my readers and friends know:
- I am on Spring Break for all of next week. I'll use that time to do some serious swimming, some new recipes, some day trips with my husband and to catch up on blogs.
- I also wanted you to know that the website that I use to store my printable recipe cards is upgrading it's server, to handle the volume of recipes they've received. That means that you might not be able to access my recipes between April 7th-9th.
- Last, but not least-- I am working on a giveaway, that I think you will like. Keep reading, as I am not going to announce this in my header nor on my Twitter Page. I am not offering a giveaway to draw in more readers. It is my way of saying "thank you " for all of your comments. I read every single one, and I try to respond to as many as I can. Because I have been so busy with work and commitments, I've fallen behind in visiting your blogs or sending you a personal email.
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From March 8-12 I'll be at the AWP Conference in Austin, Texas. I'm on a panel put together by the good people of Omnidawn about "Nonrealist Fiction", and am quite humbled to be in the company of panelists Kelly Link, Jeff VanderMeer, Brian Evenson, and Laird Hunt. There are also plans for a reading by all of us, plus the great Gavin Grant, at Bookpeople in Austin on Thursday, March 9 at 7pm (subject to change, I expect).
And now for some more or less random stuff:
- The, uh, charmingly named Bloggasm has relaunched after some technical difficulties. How do I know this? They interviewed me.
- Alan DeNiro:Notes on Speculative Poetry
- Charles Bernstein: "Poetic innovation is pragmatic. Innovation is what lets you resolve emerging problems as they pop up, mostly unexpectedly and often unhappily. But better than innovation, call it ingenuity. It's not something rarified or, well, avant-garde. On the contrary, it's the absence of ingenuity that takes poetry out of everyday life."
- Julia Kristeva writes a "thriller of ideas": "The malaise of a fatherless nomad who is no dupe but who nevertheless drifts, the spasm that strangles all real presence of love...." (via Galleycat)
- Kate Braverman interviews William Vollmann: "My father always used to say the reason academics fight so much is because the stakes are so small. When your book is published, the stakes are so low. Whatever they pay you is not enough. Therefore, why should you compromise? In the meantime, we're all prostitutes. Most of the prostitutes I know keep one little private thing. Some prostitutes won't kiss. Some of them save the anus for the person they love. Or they might refuse to say "I love you" except to the person they love. Whatever it is, they keep one tiny little broken shard of their integrity. I don't want to use the word integrity because it sounds as if they're doing something bad. They aren't. They're just living on the capital they have, which is themselves."
- (By the way, if you haven't read Kate Braverman's short story collection Small Craft Warnings, I recommend it. Beautifully written and deeply affecting. As is Lewis Nordan's Music of the Swamp, which I'm reading when I get an occasional break from academic stuff, because a secret agent in the Far East told me to.)
- From the museum of great first paragraphs: "Next month celebrations to mark the centenary of the birth of Samuel Beckett begin. What would he have made of them? I doubt he would have turned up -- but then I doubt that the man who saw life as a fatal disease would have turned up for his own birth if he had been given the choice."
- Scott Esposito writes about David Markson's marvelous novel Wittgenstein's Mistress, one of my favorite books of the past few decades. (I tend to think of it as a last-person-on-Earth story, but it's ambiguous, which is part of the pleasure.)


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Review: Red for the win
Lancool is a relatively new name on the computer case market, but if you think they can't deliver – you're in for a big surprise. Lancool is actually a subsidiary of the company that needs no introduction – Lian Li. However, unlike Lian-Li, who make their cases of aluminum, Lancool makes their cases from steel, which at the same time pushes the weight up and pricing down.
Today, we'll look at PC-K62R Red Dragon, which is somewhat of a new and improved version of Dragonlord case, this time with red interior.
As you can already see, PC-K62R Red Dragon resembles some much more expensive high-end cases.
Red Dragon comes in a nice black box that features many pictures and details detailing the case. It's not too large and you can easily carry it. The case weighs in at 9.55kg and our model is PC-K62R.
Below the large picture on the front of the box is the series of smaller ones, which detail some more specific points that make this case worth your while.
The side shows two smaller pictures which show the two available versions of this case – the one with a side-window and the one without.
Lancool secured the case with Styrofoam and wrapped the case in nylon, meaning the package can take a beating and your case will still be delivered in mint condition.
With the case you'll get a fan controller, PSU fastening mechanism, 3 types of screws, an MB-warning speaker (buzzer), two plastic cable brackets, one 3-pin Molex adapter, self-adhesive rubber for mounting HDDs and an installation manual.
First look at Red Dragon
PC K62R Red Dragon's looks isn't the only selling point for Lancool's case – there are many more surprises within the case.
There's plenty of room in the red-colored interior. Lancool left a lot of holes in the panel that should make cable management and swaping CPU coolers a breeze, and there's plenty of space for the HDD and optical devices as well.
The case is as tough as it gets – stainless steel does that. In this case, the steel isn't brushed but a bit rough like a fine sandpaper.
Red Dragon is 49.6cm high, 21.4cm wide and 49.8cm long. The case comes with rubber feet that help with lessening vibration noise.
The front panel is closed with a two-layer wire mesh, which allows for air-intake without inviting dust in. Two-layer mesh is placed on most openings in the case and the inside layer, which is a finer mesh, can easily be removed and cleaned.
On the top of the case you'll find ON/OFF keys, 2xUSB ports, microphone and headphone jacks and Lancool's logo. The rear part of the top panel is reserved for air-outlets. The case comes with two preinstalled 140mm fans.
The top panel can be taken off, but not before the front panel is removed. This "process" however, shouldn't take more than 20 seconds.
Side panels are removed by a tug backwards, which isn't easy and it takes some force, but once in place - side panels are stable and won't vibrate. The screws that hold the side-panels in place don't need tools to operate – you can unscrew them by hand.
The standard version of PC-G62R case comes with two metal side-panels, but you can order the windowed version and mount it with no trouble. We must admit that Red Dragon looks much better with the window on the side as the red interior really makes for a nice view.
As you can see from the following picture, there are one vertical and 8 standard expansion slots. You'll find a 120mm (1500rpm) fan with a red LED lamp, so no lack of redness here.
Lancool seems to have thought about everything and there are two holes for external water cooling.
PSU is mounted on the bottom. Thanks to the rubber feet, the case is about 1cm from the floor, which helps the power supply get air.
The wire mesh is in action here as well, preventing dust from entering the case. Like the rest of them, it can be taken off and cleaned.
The insides
Lancool PC K62R Red Dragon case's insides are painted red, which makes this a treat for your eyes when the side panel has a window on it. Good thing about this case is that HDD trays are slid outwards, so there's no need for removing the graphics card every time you switch disks. The case supports microATX and ATX motherboards.
If you've no experience in mounting motherboards, don't worry as Lancool marked the appropriate holes for ATX and microATX motherboards.
If you look at the motherboard tray, you'll notice that it has a couple of larger holes. The largest one is behind the CPU, intended for large coolers which require back-panels. This means that you won't have to take the motherboard out of the case in case you need to switch CPU coolers. The rest of the holes are for easier cable management, behind the motherboard where they'll keep out of sight and out of the airflow.
HDD trays won't get in the way of motherboard components, but you'll have to take the right side panel off if you want to connect or disconnect your HDD. If you have one or two HDD, you can pull the trays outwards and then disconnect the cables, but if there are more HDDs, you won't be able to. The reason is that the cable is not long enough and will tug on the rest of the trays. Red dragon will take up to 3.5'' HDDs.
HDD brackets come with rubber pucks that attenuate vibration and lessen operation noise.
The optical drive locking system comes with relatively short "nails" that enter holes meant for screws, meaning that a slighter tug or push of an optical drive results in the drive moving. Only the first two out of five 5.25'' slots come with a toolless system that speeds up the installation, whereas the rest is old fashioned – screws and some more screws.
Four 140mm (1000RPM) and one 120mm fan (1500RPM) are in charge of the airflow. If you haven't been paying attention, one 140mm is on the front panel and another two are on the upper panel. The smaller 120mm fan (1500RPM) is on the back panel and it, just like the front fan, comes with a red LED lamp.
Expansion slots on this case use a special mechanism that makes our job much easier, and we've already seen it on some of Lian-Li's cases.
Installation and testing
We mounted the PSU and fastened it with Lian-Li's strange L-shaped bracket. We must admit that this mechanism is pretty simple and practical, but so are four screws.
The fans are quiet but Lian-Li's Fan Speed Controller is there in case you need to control them manually.
Mounting HDDs is not time-consuming, but it does require you to take the side panel off in order to connect the cables.
Test bed:
Motherboard: MSI P35 Platinum (MSI)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme x6800, 2x 2.93GHz (Intel)
Memory: A-Data Extreme DDR2 800 (2x1GB)
Graphic Card: EVGA Geforce 260 GTX (EVGA)
CPU-Cooler: Gelid Tranquillo (Gelid Solution Ltd.)
Case: Lancool PC K62R Red Dragon (CaseKing)
Our test CPU cooler was Gelid Tranquillo, which we've so far used in Cooler Master's HAF 922. The nice in-case airflow allowed for stable operation of our processor, which was overclocked to 3.3GHz.
After half an hour of Prime 95 torture, the temperature within the case was at 55°C, which is almost identical to HAF 922's results. The fans ran at maximum RPM throughout our tests yet they were never too loud.
Lancool PC K62R Red Dragon didn't fail us and our test only confirmed why this case already has a good reputation.
Although at a glance it might seem as just another standard case, Lancool's PC K62R Red Dragon case hides much of what graces it. Naturally, knowing Lian-Li's designs this is not a surprise. Within you'll find all the space you need, openings for CPU coolers and cable management, rubber pucks to prevent HDD vibration and 4 silent fans.
Windowed Plexiglas panels, which can be purchased for this case, make a relatively uninspiring black box really come to life and the red interior coupled with red LED lamps really makes for a nice view. You can get Lancool K62 Midi-Tower - Red Dragon Window Edition for about 90 euro, here.
Since we're talking about cost-down versions of Lian-Li cases, some things had to suffer, so you might find some details that seem as if they lack finishing touches. We're mostly talking about the inside of the case, where upon closer look you'll find that HDD brackets seem a little cheapish or that the rubber feet leave marks on the floor.
Red Dragon is a pretty functional case which deserves all plaudits, but things aren't as bright price-wise. The case goes for €102, which in this times isn't really what we'd call affordable nor nice bang-per-buck deal.
If however you don't have monetary issues, like red color and ultimately choose to purchase it, we assure you that you won't have any sleepless nights over what the case offers.
Special thanks to CaseKing, the company that kindly provided our today's test sample.


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Teens Care for Their Local River, Their Way
Right up until the private screening of the Watershed Report on the last day of June, I didn't know if we would actually succeed, but was thoroughly inspired by the possibility that we might. What excites me about teaching is working at the edge of my competence. Teenagers grow and learn in the same dynamic way, at the boundary between grace and failure. We were natural partners.
At the screening, the students and I previewed the Watershed Report pilot version of four short video segments to a packed house of 150 key communicators. There was no more room to sit so people were standing along the back wall. For two days I had been training some of our leadership students to emcee the event. I would sit on the sidelines.
For weeks following the screening, we were inundated with emails from people who wanted the DVD, the strategy, the possibility that youth might lead us towards sustainable behavior through their own noticing of positive trends.
To arrive at this moment, I had recruited 22 high school leadership students to work with me for a year. We learned about watershed issues; analyzed sustainability trends within our watershed; and produced a series of short video reports intended for broadcast, the web, and public presentations.
The students came from nine different high schools in five different school districts, all from within the ecological boundaries of the most densely populated watershed in Puget Sound. I drink this water. I pee here. This is where I park my car. My daughter wants to have her wedding in my backyard. The story of my watershed is my story.
The students said "I want to be part of that story." During our pilot year, in which I would deliver the "Watershed Address Seminar" to over 1,000 students, a select few would hang around at the end of class. They had only five minutes passing time between bells, between the essential subjects of standardized curriculum, and they wanted something more.
Here's what I think about before stepping into a classroom of teenagers:
- Be extremely present. I was a teenager once, and that guy is still part of me.
- Be earnestly fascinated with my subject. And let the subject be a problem to solve, not stuff to know.
- Be honest about the size of the challenge, yet infectiously curious about the solution. Paint a vivid picture about where we are headed—a positive future, one that requires us to show up.
- Be local, relevant, and immediate. This stuff is happening as we speak, and in our own backyards. We are players in this story, and, therefore, powerful.
So, what is the Watershed Report? The mission we crafted reads like this: To inspire the next generation of watershed stewards through education, restoration, and public communications. Strategically, the Watershed Report contributes to a generational shift in stewardship behavior by establishing a new mental framework for living sustainably within our watershed address, and by broadcasting it through a variety of megaphones.
Here's the strategy:
Collaborate with professionals. High school student leaders are trained in stewardship project management, sustainability policy analysis, public speaking, and video broadcast journalism. They collaborate with professionals to produce a series of short video reports that track local sustainability trends across sectors including school districts, city government, green business development, and habitat restoration efforts.
Craft data-driven messages. Along with a team of science and sustainability mentors, student cull accurate, data-driven messages from the annual reports of city governments, school districts, and agencies. Their research is supplemented with targeted surveys and interviews with key personnel.
Feature youth as experts in hip, fast-paced videos. The Watershed Report is updated annually and broken into short segments suitable for school seminars, public meetings, TV, and the web. Well-informed youth are the only narrators. There are no expert interviews or adult speakers. The style is charming, fast-paced, and informative. In producing the pilot, it was beautiful to see our six designated narrators learn to use a teleprompter and stay on focus, take after take. There were plenty of bloopers and lots of laughter. As a stylistic choice, we incorporated the bloopers into the beginning of each video segment to make sure that our audience knew that these people were real and that they loved telling a story they cared about. Another set of these same students spent four hours in a professional sound studio and improvised the entire sound track.
Highlight positive, leading edge trends. Only positive trends are featured, generating a gentle competition among local leaders. With youth as the messengers, we set in motion an intergenerational expectation towards sustainability.
With one exhilarating year under our belts, we've learned a lot. People want to know what's working. They want to know positive stories grounded in understandable, measurable data. They want to know and trust the messenger— somebody like them. Adult leaders seem to be clamoring for youth to catch up, speak up, and contribute their idealism and energy to unclogging the tired politics of "we can't get it done."
And, the awe-inspiring change I witnessed? Teenagers will sit up and make eye contact once adults value them enough to include them and their ideas in shaping local policy. This is what I call "curriculum in community." Feeling valued, youth are naturally motivated to do good work, ask penetrating questions, and demand the best from the adults around them.
As a strategic storyteller and educator, this is what I live for. And the setting for this story is local, local, local … my watershed address.
Peter Donaldson wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Peter is a master storyteller and former teacher who serves as Program Manager of the Watershed Report, a new initiative of the Friends of the Cedar River Watershed. He is developing a new teacher endorsement for Sustainability Education with Antioch University, and tours the region with two one-man shows, Salmonpeople and The Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci.
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Nearly two years after Estonian government sites were brought to their knees by a DDoS attack, a high-ranking official over the Russian youth group Nashi has admitted that his organization was behind the attacks. Nashi maintains that it acted without authorization from the government, but will the Russians move to punish those responsible in a tense political situation?
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That kind of logic is so Soviet it hurts. Russia appears to be going back to those times on an almost daily basis.
FYI, it should always be spelled "Nashi" in English - 'и' transliterates to 'i'.
Hmm... so, if someone shoots, and kills, Goloskokov, it's really the commissar's fault that he wasn't prepared to handle the impact of the bullet?
Just sayin'....
Americans really shouldn't comment on stuff like this. Sorry but you have no idea of history since yours is so short it's pathetic in comparison with European (not to mention Arabic one).
There is a shit load of bad blood there and it's not just due to Russia. Estonians have done crap back when they could get away with it. There is never a single bad guy in this case (I thought that you would get that after all the crap in the Balkans but no).
And no Russia will not go against them as they have enough of their own people supporting this kind of action to make that a stupid idea. After all it all started with suppression of Russian minority in Estonia.
@AxMi-24: Well as a Brit, I have plenty of history to draw upon (and the US has a pretty rich history over its 300+ years of immigration, so they have a right to get pissed-off at that sort of European arrogance). The one thing that's true about 'bad blood' is that those who spend their time on navel-gazing historical angst are merely doomed to repeat the errors of their predecessors.
Eastern Europeans will never be free until they learn to shake off the shackles of history and realise that this sort of childish tit-for-tat feuding just condemns another generation to the misery of the past.
Not sure that Brits ignore their history. There is still some bad blood there towards Germans and French I would say (far less than in the east though).
On the other hand the East has had a lot more recent history as well as a lot of new stuff keeps being made (Estonia is not that nice to it's Russia minority and it goes the other way as well, and is a case in much of east (Croatia vs Slovenia for example)). It's there and ignoring it is both stupid and dangerous (could come back and bite you in the ass like kosovo thing will).
Finally US history is both short and uneventful in comparison. They do have some but nothing like getting invaded to get exterminated (Russians vs Napoleon/Germans few times and so on). That kind of thing keeps to stay in memory. After all the whole USSSR thing was defensive as they are far more afraid of NATO and west than the other way around and looking att history they do have a reason for it.
Nice to know you know that everyone on Ars is an American.
Russia will not go against them because Russia refuses to accept the validity of now-independent former soviet bloc countries. Russian foreign politics is obsessed with undermining and influencing the countries it once controlled. Recall from spring 2007 that representatives of the Russian Duma walked into Estonia and suggested the Estonian Parliament step down.
It started with the Estonian government wanting to move (not destroy) a statue that glorified the troops who occupied Estonia and the regime that oppressed Estonia for decades and exiled Estonians to Siberia, etc.
I think this type of defenses of Russia are a sign that the West doesn't have the guts to stand up to Russia
True. Maybe you haven't noticed that Estonia has aligned itself to western powers (think: NATO cyber security center, no visa required to go to US, etc.). Taking off the shackles isn't all that easy when the former world superpower next door doesn't want to accept your independence.
Oh come on. Russia is doing exactly the thing US is doing and has been doing and that any other country would do if they could get away with it. Of course they don't want NATO on their border as they see NATO as an aggressor (and who can blame them with recent changes in NATO).
I seem to remember US getting quite upset with USSR military bases in Kuba (no mention that it was triggered by deployment of nuclear missile to Turkey btw).
Only difference between Russia and NATO (well US as the rest of NATO are just pathetic has beens) is that west has better PR. Other than that they do exactly the same stuff (well West is a bit more aggressive with Iraq as a prime example).
PS: That statue glorified the WWII soldiers. The ones that actually made sure that all of Europe didn't speek german right now.
Americans shouldn't comment? We know our history perfectly well over here. We know that Russia under Communism was a nation where people lived in fear, and which prevented neighboring countries from enjoying democracy. In short, like Nazi Germany. And, just lately, they used the Sudeten Russians as an excuse for invading Georgia.
Sadly, Russia has possession of enough nuclear weapons that we can't just follow the lessons history has taught us to avert a tragic war by swiftly dismissing Russia's present government, and shipping Putin and Medvedev off to Georgia for trial and execution (presumably; after all, a nonzero number of Georgians died as a result of Russia's little military adventure).
It is impractical to make convict labor pay for the salaries of all the policemen and judges and prison guards; similarly, we won't be able to obtain justice for the Cold War by making Russian taxpayers pay for immediate economic parity between Eastern and Western Europe and reimburse the U.S. for its Cold War defense budget. Given that Russia has received such a great mercy from the West as to be spared this bill, it should be ashamed of its past crimes, and show proper humility by not attempting to obstruct the foreign policy of a democracy like the United States.
The problem here is that a youth organisation under heavy government protectorate openly makes statements like this about an action that has caused a massive economic damage to the country. The suppression of Russian minority happens on Estonian territory and Russia should have dealt with it in a politically grown-up way, not through their youth organisation with a shauvinistic mindset (you've got to admit, 'Nashi' have done some wacky stuff in the name of Russian mentality).
This whole situation is by no means easy to solve, and the Estonians aren't innocent by a long run, but the way 'velikaja Rossiya' handles things like that are by no means professional either.
The memories of the days when Moscow bathed in grandeur and installed its (mostly Russian-born) leaders in the former USSR republics while the rest of the country was drowning in socialism shit are still fresh in peoples' minds and the policies of Russia's 'medveputy' aren't exactly helping to forget them.
P.S. It is hard to believe that Russia would ever be a great nation as its massive natural and intellectual wealth are constantly being undermined by assholes in power, including organisations like Nashi (brainwash 'em young, eh? - just like soviet pioneers).
Estonians require a visa for all trips to the US. Frankly, I'd class the former SSRs' involvement in NATO expansion in the same category as all the rest of this nonsense. I don't think the 105 Estonian soldiers in Afghanistan are going to win the War on Terror for us all, and they hardly justify the damage that Estonian membership has done to NATO courtesy of Herman Simm.
Eastern Europeans certainly aren't the only ones to suffer from this malady, it's worldwide. But until they learn to stop the cycles of insult and aggression they're going to get nowhere. It requires a concerted effort from both the general populace and their leaders, but it can be done, just look at Northern Ireland.
I must admit I'm proud of the speed of our western journalism.
Goloskokov bragged to Russian media about organizing the attacks from inside Transdnistria scant weeks after those attacks commenced.
That is, in May 2007.
Quick google w/ daterange:
And to pick a completely unrelated friendly fight - wicker_man, could you clarify your following statement:
Not since late last year. Estonia is part of the Visa Waiver Program now.
Now, more on topic, this just seems like the usual "big bad Russia vs. good small Estonia/Georgia/..." that our western press likes to present. When it comes to reporting about Russia, a lot of the western press is not any better than what a lot of Russian press writes about the west.
Why doesn't Russia just join NATO? Is it afraid of a power-sharing struggle with the US and that's why it prefers to be sitting cornered in instead? No, seriously - Russia actually has lots of common interests with the Americans and NATO - Middle East (Afghanistan) drug problem, islamic extremism, and surely Russia would rather choose USA as an alliance partner (considering a rich history between the two countries) than China, for example.
Besides, no matter how hard life might be in the current economic crisis, Western style of life seems to appeal much more to the countries of the former Soviet bloc - none has crawled back to Russia's feet yet asking for forgiveness. Russian politicians should change their mindset and start rebuilding their country not basing on the ideology of idiocy and reliance of natural resources, but on the merit of its own citizens' achievements.
P.S. Also, before starting talking about maltreatment of Russian minorities in Estonia, Russian government should actually look at the maltreatment by its own citizens of all of its own minorities and citizens of autonomies who have built have of Moscow in the past decade. The only reason we hear Russia's story is because is has a bigger fist that it can show now and then (better PR, as you say).
P.P.S. The statue you are talking about glorifies Soviet soldiers, not just Russian ones - every nation in the former USSR laid the bodies of its people under the German tanks - this is something that the current generation of Russians (including their rulers) easily forgets.
Not to pick a fight really, but what's in the name of yours?
Oh, and also the same avatar as AxMi-24 - is that a dual profile or you guys just sit next to each other during Duma sessions?
Urm, what avatar?
I doubt I'd qualify, as I'm an Estonian national and therefore, by default, a baby-eating, grave-robbing fashist. I suspect we're both wearing the default avatar.
As for the name - it's an inside joke, obviously, and at times a method to weed out those sans elementary knowledge from Russia-related debates
Oh I see, it must be the default Ars avatar - I beg your pardon I thought Ars has been invaded by the legions of brainwashed patriots of 'zlatoglavaya' as the latest hi-tech PR stunt of its government
LOL @ baby-eating, grave-robbing fashist
P.S. Reading some of the news threads of Mail.ru makes me laugh at the prospect of posters having a future input into the politics of Russia. Degenerates.
All hail the Soviet soldiers, who bestowed on us the blessing of Russian, for German is an evil language and a blight to Europe.
Sarcasm aside, you assume that a Russian occupation was somehow better than a German one. (I say "Russian" because the USSR was governed from Russia, was culturally Russian, and spoke the Russian language.)
The fear? Hm how tolerant was US towards comunists at that time? About as much as USSR against "capitalist". Both do very a like stuff. Sure US didn't have gulag and shipping to Siberia but both had nice and imperialistic wars all over the planet.
Georgia attacked first by shelling the civilians in south otsetia. I don't know how it is for you but generally people do not like getting shelled in their homes. Of course the fact that US had encouraged the regime there is forgot somehow.
Than we can mention Afghanistan and Iraq were west is spreading democracy and freedom (or whatever the current excuse is). I'm sure both are extremely happy that troops are there and bombing the crap out of them. After all if a NATO bomb hits you it's like getting a jack pot in the lottery.
So to sum up. get of your high horses. West at least as bad as russia is.
It's harder to sell BS to your own people if you have no scary enemy. Also I would imagine that US influence in NATO would be smaller than as Russia actually has a military unlike EU. Than there is also the problem of NATO not really being needed and getting very strange missions considering it is an defensive alliance for northern atlantic (Europe + US basically). Bringing in Russia in to EU and NATO would solve a shit load of problems but there is still enough nationalistic retards on both sides to make that very unlikely.
There are avatars on ArsT? Also I'm not Russian, I'm Croatian. I just don't like one sided BS where Russia is to blame for everything and flowers grow out of Wests ass.
How about, "Russia is to blame for quite a bit and big piles of steaming crap come out of the West's ass?"
Click your name, then click, "View [your name]'s public profile".
such childish piffle.
YOUR screwed up attitude is exactly what my family left Eastern Europe to come to the United States--a country who's history I am proud to be a part of [including the collassal ignoramus who just invaded the White House].
Bull-shit. The USSR was run by a bunch of FANATICS fully intent on turning the whole world into a prison "paradise"... so much so that dozens upon dozens of Soviet military and even KGB officers spied for the West without ANY inducement or even monetary compensation -- because they rightly feared that the asshats in the Politburo were hell bent on starting a war which everyone, but most especially the Russian citizenry would lose.
Read the Panikovsky Papers, the Mitrokhin Archives, or "Liberators". Every one of these men had it extremely good within the Soviet System, but couldn't live with the fact that they were supporting a tyrranical regime. And there were many more like these three.
Why should ANYONE be tolerant of Commmunists anywhere?
There's only two types of Communists
1 Closet-tyrant, wannabe mass murderers (Communists not in power)
2 Tyrranical, mass murderers (Communists who have come into power).
Would you advocate that Americans start being "tolerant" of Nazis?
Body counts:
People who died due to Nazism: about 50,000,000
People who died to to Commnunism: about 500,000,000
Communism = mass murder, without exception.
Advocacy of Communism should be a capital crime.
Tolerance is just a shaming ploy that Commies use
to make sure they always have some breathing room,
instead of being wiped out like cockroaches like
they deserve to be.
That we can agree on
And there were no spies in the other direction as west was such a perfect place and did not support any strange regimes nor get involved in wars and killings.
Anyway we will see how west does soon. We are moving towards tyrannical regime as you call it so than we can see how it goes and how much citizens like it. Experience from the east europe is that people are not that fond of run away capitalism. So perhaps it's not an answer to everything.
I suggest you first learn what communism actually is.
(And no, I am most certainly not a communist.)
Have people noticed how the basic premise of the Russia supporters seems to be "you've done bad things therefore we can too". Whether this is true or not no democracy would accept this form of justification. Other peoples' crimes don't excuse your crimes.
Russia today doesn't remind me of Nazi German expansionism (although "oppressed Russians" in Estonia does sound somewhat like "oppressed Germans" in the Sudentenland). It is probably more like the pre World War 1 Kaiser's Germany : A not very pleasant regime, with some democratic trappings, picking pointless (playground) fights, ie the expansion of the German Navy which resulted in the British being driven into the arms of the French, ensuring an alliance which ultimately brought ruin to the Germans. What was so tragic is that the Germans didn't need this fleet. Russia's posturing strongly resembles this.
Russia today lacks the moral grounding, dramatically reduced by 74 years of the Soviet regime, which would enable them to move beyond such petty, pathetic worries.
Have people noticed how the basic premise of the Russia supporters seems to be "you've done bad things therefore we can too". Whether this is true or not no democracy would accept this form of justification. Other peoples' crimes don't excuse your crimes.
Russia today doesn't remind me of Nazi German expansionism (although "oppressed Russians" in Estonia does sound somewhat like "oppressed Germans" in the Sudentenland). It is probably more like the pre World War 1 Kaiser's Germany : A not very pleasant regime, with some democratic trappings, picking pointless (playground) fights, ie the expansion of the German Navy which resulted in the British being driven into the arms of the French, ensuring an alliance which ultimately brought ruin to the Germans. What was so tragic is that the Germans didn't need this fleet. Russia's posturing strongly resembles this.
Russia today lacks the moral grounding, dramatically reduced by 74 years of the Soviet regime, which would enable them to move beyond such petty, pathetic worries.
Why be so harsh? You can clearly see the guy is talking about the perverted communism of the USSR and partially China, not at all the 'pure' communist ideology devised by the German philosophers. What Marx said and what Stalin did in the name of communism are two different things, and I am sure Marx wouldn't have approved that either.
Parts of the communist (or should i say socialist) ideology are super-progressive compared to even today's capitalism (check out the public sentiments in the press towards the bankers, etc.) - the problem is that fucktards in the driver's seat have raped it right and left for their own good, so it has become an ideology for the sake of ideology, not for the sake of people as it was intended - I am sure that's what he means.
There's a wikipedia entry illustrating this very popular rhetorical device: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...are_lynching_Negroes
Go read some history. The fanatics who were intent on turning the world into a communist paradise were executed by 1937; of course, one tried to get away, but he recevied an ice axe through the brain in 1940. Since then, the ideal of communism was no more than a rhetorical device and pseudo-religion designed to motivate the masses and keep the bureaucrats in office. Sure, there were crazy people who really believed all the bullshit, but in the Soviet system, they weren't allowed to get near the levers of power.
Those were only the most PUBLICLY VISIBLE fanatics -- the military leaders of the Russian Civil War. Stalin was afraid that, having field command experience, he would lose public confidence to one of them ... so, he simply eliminated from the competition all of the fanatics whose names were known to the general public (and a few more for good measure).
Take a good look at the membership of the Politburo in 1990... most of those guys had been there since 1930 or earlier -- truly the very central core of fanatics, of a fanatical regime which was so intent on looking for fights that even the upper echelons of their own military were CONSTANTLY tipping off the west because they rightly feared that the Politburo was going to bumble them (the Soviet militry) into a war against the west that they had no chance of winning. The Soviet Army had the capacity to sustain offensive operations for 2-3 weeks, after which the logistics capacity would have been strained to the maximum, just as REFORGER reinforcements would have been arriving. The Soviets never had the capacity to over run Europe all the way to the Atlantic, but many in the Politburo were damn well looking for any opportunity to give it a try anyways (accusing the Generals who advised them against this of not having enough "Revolutionary Spirit" rather than facing the fact that their industrial complex couldn't supply the necessary military hardware, let alone basic civilian goods such as laundry appliances and carpet vacuums as well).


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GEORGIA -- Around 20 September I was in need of a small loan. So I searched the net for military-friendly companies and found 'Just Military Loans'. I have received loans through other military loan companies in the past, so I did not think this would be much different. I filled out an application on their website and the very next day they notified me that I was approved. They emailed me a list of instructions on how to begin the loan paperwork process. The instructions dictated that I would need to set up an allotment through My Pay (to pay the loan through monthly payroll deduction) and that I would need to get my loan documents notarized and signed and fax back to them.
I completed my part of the loan process within 2 days. At the time, I was currently home on leave, in between a PCS (military move). Part of the loan process was to give them information on my chain of command and phone numbers where they could reach them to verify my employment. My chain of command was overseas, 14 hours ahead of EST. But then, this being a military loan company, you would not think this to be a problem. But it was. They informed me that they only call overseas on certain days, which were Tuesday and Thursday. And the times they call at are not at all realistic.
They would call them early in the morning, when they would not be in the office yet and of course unavailable.
Around 5 October, I finally grew frustrated and fed up. I had done my part of the loan process and these people were not working hard at all to do their part. By then, the payroll deduction had already began, so they had received my first payment on a loan that I had yet to receive. I immediately stopped the allotments so that it would not be taken out of other checks and called Just Military Loans and informed them that I would no longer need their services. I then asked for the refund of the first payment they had received.
She stated that I would receive my refund through ACH with a fee of 12 dollars. Does not sound right that I should have to pay the ACH fee for a loan not received for failure to do their part of the agreement. And anyway, the way the loan agreement was set up, they withhold the amount of the 1st payment from the loan amount to be received in case they do not receive my allotment, so I would have been given back that amount ANYWAY. But whatever, I just wanted the whole thing to be done with so I agreed to the ACH refund.
I know you are not supposed to put any money down on a loan before receiving the funds, but I have gone through other military loan agencies and they require proof that you have started an allotment before proceeding with the loan. I never had a problem with this until now. By 23 October I still had not received my refund. I emailed their company and informed them I had not received my refund and I received a response back asking which account I would like the funds to be deposited into. I gave them the requested information.
By 3 November, I still had not received the refund. I sent them a 'friendly' reminder that they still owed me the refund and that the next email I would have to send would be from a lawyer. I received a response on 5 November asking for my bank account information (once again). The ACH fee also somehow changed from the previous 12 dollars to 16 dollars. I emailed them asking why and she claimed that because it was now past 1 November the ACH fee went up and that she would need proof of all email correspondence with them to prove that I requested my refund prior to 1 November.
I forwarded her the information. This shows terrible negligence on their part and I am STILL waiting for my refund. I filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. If you are in the military and looking for a loan, think twice if not three times about dealing with this company.
WILMINGTON/SANDY SPRINGS, DELAWARE -- Just military loans is by far the worst military "friendly" loan company in the whole United States; if they were an international financial institution it would be in the whole world. Fast Loans? yeah right. There is not words to describe the magnitude of bad service and poor management these people offer to our service member not to mention the outrageous APR they charge you obviously to get you into more debt in the future. Their slogan "Serving those who serve" please remove that out of your website is more like screwing up those who serve. This following message is for you Just military loans and their Staff.
Answer me this question. How does it feel to scam the people that protect this country with their own blood and sweat in the battlefield? How would you feel if I was your brother your sister your mother and you were giving me the type of treatment you give these service member? Would you sell an 70% 80% APR loan to your own mother?
How would you feel if I was your son your daughter and there was a loan company out there taking advantage of my financial situation. Do you have any idea what is to pick up your best friend in pieces off the ground? You guys need to get your ** straight excuse my french. But what you guys are doing is simply wrong.
We come back to the country we come from so that our fellow American can help us out not screw us over. Shame on you guys. How do you even sleep at night? From the CEO to the newest employee in this financial institution from the wealthiest investor to the least one. I can't believe this is the kind of people I risk my life for out there in the field.
I thought to myself you guys were living to your motto to your slogan but I guess I was wrong. But you keep what you doing. One of these days you will hear from the District and State attorney along from the president of the United States Himself. Companies like yours shouldn't be on business. Taking advantage of those in need.
Just Military Loans promises approval for all military loans, and they do keep their promise. Just military Loans does approve military members, the only problem is getting them to pay out. After submitting my loan application I was notified of my approval within just a few hours, I thought "it only took a few hours, this is looking good so far". After the approval you will be asked to set up an allotment and print and sign the contract and scan or fax it to them along with a copy of your military ID.
After I did this I wasn't contacted by a Just Military Loans representative for 3 days, once I finally was contacted by the representative she informed me that I need to provide additional contact numbers for my chain of command. Once I did so(it was a Friday) I did not receive a reply or update from the representative until that following Monday, which is when she told me that now that they have the numbers for my chain of command I need to provide new references because none of my references would answer their phones, so I replied stating that I would notify my references of the expected and important calls.
Once I did so I notified the representative. Later that day two of my references received calls from Just Military Loans but when they answered the calls they were immediately placed on hold for more than 5 minutes then were hung up on. I was then notified that I will not receive the funds until my references and chain of command have been contacted but this company made that almost impossible. I am a Finance Technician for the US Army, I assumed that this company was stalling or delaying the process until they received my first payment then would no longer need my business.
I stopped my allotment before end of month cut off hit (usually on the 22nd or 23rd of the month, mid month cut off is usually the 6th, 7th or 8th of the month) so Just Military Loans did not get their hands on any of my money. I suggest those who read this review do the same because I would hate to hear about somebody in need of financial assistance getting scammed by this company. Omni Financial is a great military loan company, I was contacted along with my chain of command in less than 24 hours and received the funds within less than 48 hours of submitting my loan application.
DELAWARE -- While my husband was deployed we had a death in the family that required me to travel cross country on very short notice. Needless to say we didn't have the extra cash just sitting around for me to buy a last minute plan ticket. I spoke with my husband and we agreed we would take out a short term loan. All the payday loan companies around base charged such high rates I knew that wasn't an option. I researched online and found Just Military Loans. My husband completed the application online with Just Military Loans and we received our approval email that same day.
During the process I had a few questions and upon calling into Just Military Loans the nice customer service lady told me that for security purposes they could not give me any information on the account unless I sent in a copy of my power of attorney. That was understandable so I faxed over my power of attorney and called back in. Once my power of attorney was on file our Account Manager called me instead of just corresponding with my husband through email and kept me updated on the process. We received the money with no issues and I was able to make it home in time for the funeral.
We had a wonderful experience with Just Military Loans and they really helped us out during a time of need. Everyone I spoke with at the company was helpful and knowledgeable. If ever in a pinch again and in need of money quickly we know who to turn to!


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Thomas Wyatt: Wax fat on innocent blood: I cannot leave the state to Caesar
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
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Thomas Wyatt
From Mine Own John Poynz
I cannot speak and look like a saint,
Use willes for wit, and make deceit a pleasure,
And call craft counsel, for profit still to paint.
I cannot wrest the law to fill the coffer
With innocent blood to feed myself fat,
And do most hurt where most help I offer.
I am not he that can allow the state
Of him Caesar, and damn Cato to die,
That with his death did scape out of the gate
From Caesar's hands (if Livy do not lie)
And would not live where liberty was lost;
So did his heart the common weal apply.
And he that dieth for hunger of the gold
Call him Alexander…
Say he is rude that cannot lie and feign;
The lecher a lover; and tyranny
To be the right of a prince's reign.
I cannot, I; no, no, it will not be!
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Occupy Homes MN has helped another family win their home:
Coon Rapids, MN -- After a three-year foreclosure fight, a campaign with Occupy Homes MN, and an investigation by the Minnesota Attorney General, Bank of America and Freddie Mac have offered an affordable loan modification for Frank Clark and Kristina Darrington.
The official offer came one day after the end of Frank and Kristina's redemption period, which put them at risk for imminent eviction at any time.
"Frank and Kristina have overcome great odds, including a history of homelessness. This victory allows them to sleep soundly in their home, and to continue to help others in their community," said Ryan Stopera, an organizer with Occupy Homes MN.
Frank overcame a difficult childhood and nine years of homelessness to build a life for himself and his wife Kristina. He became a union laborer and worked 12 hour days, 7 days a week to build the new 35W bridge. After the economic crisis and recession, labor jobs declined dramatically across the state, and Frank's hours were cut, making mortgage payments difficult. Despite their hardship, Frank and Kristina were denied a loan modification, and were forced into foreclosure. At a sheriff sale, Bank of America bought the home back from themselves for nearly $100,000 less than the original price; while they were unwilling to modify the mortgage for Frank and Kristina, they were more than happy to do so for themselves.
Frank and Kristina took the pledge to remain in their home until they were offered a good faith negotiation. They have built tremendous support from friends, family, neighbors, Laborers' Union 563, CrossPoint Church, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, and the local media. "This problem is not only in the cities. It affects everyone," said Frank.
Frank and Kristina are part of the "Minnesota Five," a group of homeowners fighting Bank of America foreclosure with Occupy Homes MN. After a mass public pressure campaign, so far three of the five have received modifications, including Ruby Brown, who won her home two weeks ago.
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which received the largest government bailouts, have been a consistent roadblock for homeowners struggling with foreclosure. Despite FHFA's own studies showing that principal reduction could save taxpayers up to $1 billion, acting director Ed DeMarco, a federal appointee, has refused to allow it, defying both economists and the Obama administration.
Frank and Kristina's victory gives hope to homeowners fighting Freddie Mac foreclosure across the country. "Freddie Mac has shown they don't want to work with struggling homeowners. But this shows that they can, and with enough pressure, they will. If they can help us, they can help everyone. Now we will move on to help others in the same situation," said Kristina.


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